Bucket Brigade Volunteer Interpreters will help provide free, interpretive tours to Galveston beach visitors between March and August 2017. Interpreters will directly connect with visitors as they discuss the positive role of sargassum, the benefits of turbid water, and human impacts on marine and coastal ecosystems, as well as the creatures and features found on Galveston beaches! The Bucket Brigade will be returning to Galveston Beaches in March! Volunteers can lead tours in 3-tour shifts from 9:30AM-12:30PM and/or 1:30PM-4:30PM. To Sign Up, please ...
Book Your Kayak Adventures
Enjoy a guided and interpretive Eco-Art Kayak Adventure, paddling to places of natural significance on Galveston Bay.
Float the Boat 2019
Save the date for Float the Boat 2019, our annual fundraiser and gala. This year, Artist Boat celebrates its 16th birthday!
Youth Eco-Art Programs
Eco-Art Workshops, Adventures, Residencies and Summer Camps combine the arts and sciences for exploration and appreciation of coastal habitats.
Coastal Heritage Preserve
Artist Boat is permanently preserving over 600 acres of coastal prairie on the west end of Galveston Island.
HELP SAVE MORE LAND!
In partnership with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Artist Boat will receive a $1 million grant to acquire and conserve 75 acres in 2020! This is a $1,356,000 project requiring $336,000 in matching funds, plus $20,000 for other costs. People like YOU have already donated over $60,000 in matching funds. Foundation grant applications are underway and being reviewed.
Read more about the Coastal Heritage Preserve and make a donation today!
Artist Boat now has a permanent home at 13330 Settegast.
The purchase comes with 9.8 acres of land, which gives Artist Boat a home on the prairie next to our green house and native plant nursery; a home with the birds and near the bird observatory; a home near the outdoor classroom; and a home with our kayaks and kayak storage facility just a few minutes away. For the first time, Artist Boat now has a forever home that will accommodate all of our programs within the framework of the Coastal Heritage Preserve.
Thanks to all of our donors for helping us grow!
You are the ones who make saving wilds and having a new home at the Coastal Heritage Preserve possible.
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Artist Boat Selected for $10,000 Land Acquisition Grant
Artist Boat’s Coastal Heritage Preserve was selected for a $10,000 grant from the Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Great Texas Birding Classic.
The $10,000 will be used toward the purchase of 75-acres of land within the Anchor Bay tract. The purchased tract will be added to and managed as part of the Coastal Heritage Preserve. This project will conserve foraging, roosting, and wintering habitats used by numerous coastal-dependent and migratory bird species, including federal and state threatened species. Click to read more here.
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Beautify the Bucket – Spring 2020
Keep our beaches clean and beautiful!
Enter Artist Boat’s public art competition to encourage beach goers to throw their trash in the can not the sand.
April 18, 2020
Held at Menard Park
Galveston Island
Trash Barrels are limited in number. Make sure you’re on our mailing list to get the news super fast!
Project S.I.T. (Seawall Interpretive Trail)
Beautifying 70 Galveston Seawall Benches into Educational Works of Art
Use Giving Assistant to save money and support Artist Boat Inc.
Use Giving Assistant free to support Artist Boat Inc. while you shop. Find out more.
Thank you to our major partners whose support makes our work possible
